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Are you a brass player who has encountered a painful, debilitating embouchure problem? Perhaps you have been experiencing daily lip swelling and/or lip pain and lost your endurance and high range too? Maybe your lips feel weak, rubbery, tingly, or numb when you play? Do you have strange sensations in your lips and face which were never there before that now make playing a struggle? Has this problem been plaguing you for weeks, months, years?

If you have just experienced a sudden, acute onset of an embouchure problem, we have information for you and a few tips on how to deal with your embouchure emergency.

If your debilitating, painful embouchure dilemma has been going on for more than two weeks, you will find information about the cause of and solution of overuse injuries and chronic embouchure problems.

Perhaps you are a student or amateur player just looking around the Internet for advice on how to increase your range and endurance safely or seeking a few tips on audition taking?

Embouchures.com is the only place you can purchase
Broken Embouchures, Embouchure Rehabilitation, or the
Buzz Pipe Book by Lucinda Lewis. You will find them in our Bookstore along with a special offer for those who have purchased previous editions of either book. Broken Embouchures is designed as a comprehensive guide to performance injuries and medical and dental problems. It offers a basic approach to performance rehabilitation, information on when not to change an embouchure, a little food for thought for those who are concerned about mouthpiece pressure, a few updates to the medical and dental sections, caveats and information about lip surgery, and information on common lip complaints such as blue and white spots, divots, and bumps.

The newly revised 2016 edition of
Embouchure Rehabilitation, A Comprehensive Guide for
Overcoming Embouchure Overuse Syndrome and Traumatic Injuries in Brass
Players is now available in the Bookstore.
The new edition is much more extensive and has been completely
redesigned with all new information. It provides a comprehensive
explanation of how embouchure overuse evolves into a protracted and
painful embouchure dilemma. There is a chapter on traumatic lip
injuries, information on scar tissue, lip surgery, and a chapter on how
to deal with the emotional upheaval and anxiety caused by a chronic
embouchure problem.

The new Embouchure Rehabilitation
introduces you to your physical mechanics in an easy and understandable
way and dispels the old dogmas, myths, and mysteries of air control and
how it works in playing. In the new edition, a player is shown how
to diagnose the mechanical problems he has developed as a result of
overuse or injury. There is a new and expanded rehabilitation
section which provides you with a method of using mechanical imitation
to restore your playing.

For those who have purchased previous
editions of Embouchure Rehabilitation, there is a special
discounted price available to you for the new edition. You can read
excerpts from the new edition online, or you are welcome to send me an
email if you would like to receive the complete first five chapters of
Embouchure Rehabilitation 2016.

If you are just looking for a good way to get into playing shape quickly and safely or to stay in shape while on vacation, the
Buzz Pipe Book is for you.

ChopSaver is now available at all CVS Drugstores nationwide.

Buzz Pipes, Mute Nooses, and More

Embouchures.com also features Stephanie Tretick's handmade French horn Mute Nooses and an array of buzz pipes, sound
enhancing weighted valve caps, valve cap spacers, and mouthpiece donuts which are custom made by Chuck McAlexander at the Brass Lab.
Click here to go to our Products page.

Have a Question?

Do you have a question about an embouchure problem you've been dealing with? Please
click here to contact me.